“…Verder wordt in deze bundel de betekenis geschetst van enkele merkwaardige figuren: Pater van Cl…”

“…Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn…”

“…Nel quinto e ultimo s’indaga l’‘anomalia’ rappresentata dalle costituzioni che, nel rinviare ad una precedente lex, la ascrivono ad uno (o più) antecessor(res) denominandolo(i) attraverso il termine pater (patres) o parens (parentes)."…”
Sumario

“…This three-volume collection brings together Sharp's own correspondence - a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith - and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp's intriguing "second self".With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. …”

“…La critique communique donc davantage avec la littérature qu’avec la connaissance, d’où la coexistence ici de textes qui appartiennent aussi bien à l’essai qu’au roman et qui sont produits par Taine, Michelet, Barrés, Valéry, Laforgue, Péladan... mais aussi, le vincisme français convoquant l’Europe, par Walter Pater, D’Annunzio ou Merejkovsky…”